FARC massacres 34 farm workers

SUSPECTED left-wing rebels gunned down at least 34 farm workers after tying them up at a ranch in one of Colombia’s biggest cocaine-producing regions.

The workers were sleeping at the ranch near La Gabarra, 310 miles north- east of the capital, Bogota, when armed men burst through the doors at dawn, tied them up, and shot them, La Gabarra mayor Taiz Ortega said.

At least five people were wounded and were taken by boat to a hospital in the nearby town of Cucuta. It was the worst massacre in Colombia in at least a year.